as the subjects says, I always have to install the soundcard drivers after every restart. My soundcard is an "Creative X-Fi Xtreme Gaming". Iam using Vectorlinux 5.9.The installation works very well and Iam having sound, but after a restart its like i never installed the drivers and I have to install them again. Thank god that I dont have to make a restart after the install Could it be that the drivers arent loaded with the bootup? If yes what can i do?

@rbistolfi: My onboard soundcard is disabled but Iam also having an tv-card. When the drivers arent installed, the file ist empty. So it seems that there is no soundcard detectet. After the install of the drivers there appears "0 ctalsa".

@wcs: Well, I have just installed them by running an script thats included, so Iam not sure. But the script self runs an "make" and "make install".

Maybe you'll find the name of a module in the documentation of the drivers.Then you can type "lsmod" to see if the module is loaded.It shouldn't be after a reboot, but you can load it by typing "modprobe <module name>"

If it works after the modprobe command, then you can put the command at the end of /etc/rc.d/rc.modules and it should start at boot.

Also you might want to look at the driver's Makefile in the source directory to see what it is doing when it does "make install". Search for an "install" instruction in that Makefile.There must be something there that doesn't stick (in the previous post, I'm guessing it's a modprobe command). Whatever it is, then it can be made to run at boot.